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Psychological horror games on Linux

65 psychological horror games on Linux, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. The fear comes mainly from the mind: dread, unreliable perception, guilt, isolation or a reality that comes apart, rather than from fighting monsters. A game with one such scene in an action game does not count.

65 games

All psychological horror games on linux

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs key art: a painted Victorian engine room of brass pipes, gauges and a ladder beside a red armchair, with a round hatch smeared with blood

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

Descend into the infernal machine beneath an industrialist's factory.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amnesia: Rebirth key art: Tasi holds up a lit match, a pale clawed creature lurking in the dark beside her

Amnesia: Rebirth

Lost in the Algerian desert, with days missing and fear that feeds the dark.

PC / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Amnesia: The Dark Descent art: a pale green stone hall in Brennenburg Castle with a carved fountain at its centre

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Hide in the dark of a Prussian castle from things you cannot fight.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Among the Sleep key art: a toddler in starry pyjamas hugs a teddy bear on a crescent moon that drips into a shadow with glowing eyes

Among the Sleep

Crawl through a nightmare house as a toddler searching for your mother.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Anthology Of The Killer key art: BB, a small pink-haired girl, stands at the end of a line of grotesque cartoon characters, some covered in blood

Anthology Of The Killer

A zine writer, a city of serial killers and a world that runs on dream logic.

PC / Linux

Being Her Darkest Friend: Selina stands on a rock ledge in the dark as a grey figure with red eyes sits above her, with the line 'Tomoko?!'

Being Her Darkest Friend

An art student wakes inside her own nightmare and has to find a way out.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Can A Cute Ghost Story Be Spooky? cover: a smiling white cartoon ghost beside the title on purple, with a red party hat

Can A Cute Ghost Story Be Spooky?

Help a cute ghost find his stolen hat. What could go wrong?

PC / Mac / Linux

Ceasing to be Her Demise nightmare art: a skeleton slumped in front of a grey wall of ribs, with tentacle-like shapes and an eye in the dark below

Ceasing to be Her Demise

Selina's nightmares follow her home, in the last part of the trilogy.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Conarium key art: a pale man's face with glowing white eyes and a light shining from his forehead

Conarium

Wake in an empty Antarctic base, dead and returned, and follow the others into the ruins.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

DEAD LETTER DEPT. screenshot: a scanned photo on an old monitor while the typed line reads Tonight I watched the light leave their eyes

DEAD LETTER DEPT.

Type up the lost mail. Some of it seems to be writing back.

PC / Linux

Detention key art: a schoolgirl in a white uniform holds a picture frame as chairs, desks and papers fly around her

Detention

Trapped in a haunted school in 1960s Taiwan under martial law.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone / Android

Dread Fields key art: a pale woman with burning eyes and dark hair in front of a field of sunflowers

Dread Fields

A quiet farm in the middle of nowhere, and what its last owner buried.

PC / Mac / Linux

Fran Bow key art: Fran holding her black cat Mr. Midnight in front of a red-eyed monster, with skeletal and masked characters on the left

Fran Bow

A girl escapes an asylum while her pills show her a world of blood and monsters.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / Android

Harvester key art: a hooded figure with glowing red eyes raises a scythe against a red night sky over a domed building

Harvester

Wake in a 1950s town of strangers and a cult that wants you to kill.

PC / Linux

Higurashi Ch.1 screenshot: Satoko, Rena and Rika standing at a village festival stall

Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi

A sleepy summer village where someone dies every June.

PC / Mac / Linux

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream key art: glowing blue circuit-board lines on a black background

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Five prisoners of an insane computer, each sent through a nightmare of their own past.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Night-vision camera view of a kitchen and dining area with the anomaly report menu open, listing rooms and an abyss presence type

I'm on Observation Duty

Watch the cameras all night and report anything that changes.

PC / Mac / Linux / iPhone

Security camera view of a dim living room with a fireplace and a chessboard, the anomaly report menu open with types such as Ghost, Intruder and Object movement

I'm on Observation Duty 2

A whole house on camera this time, and Timothy is back.

PC / Mac / Linux

A dark living room with green sofas around a glass coffee table, seen from inside the house

I'm on Observation Duty 3

No cameras this time: walk the haunted house yourself and photograph what changed.

PC / Mac / Linux / VR

I'm on Observation Duty 4 screenshot: a black-and-white camera view of a dark gallery with portraits on every wall and a desk with a telephone

I'm on Observation Duty 4

Watch a house on camera all night and report everything that changes.

PC / Mac / Linux

I'm on Observation Duty 5 screenshot: a black-and-white camera view of a house entrance hall and staircase, with a timestamp and report button

I'm on Observation Duty 5

Six places, one night each, and something different every time you switch cameras.

PC / Mac / Linux

A security camera view of a lakeside cottage with a red wall, a sauna door, deck chairs and a rowing boat by a wooden dock

I'm on Observation Duty 6

Six places, one night shift, and something different on every camera.

PC / Mac / Linux

Camera view of an indoor pool with a green spiral waterslide, timestamped 01:18 and labelled Waterslide

I'm on Observation Duty 7

Six new places on camera, one night shift each, and paranoia to fight.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox

Camera view labelled Catwalk: two figures stand at the end of a dim fashion runway between rows of red seats

I'm on Observation Duty 8

A catwalk, a stable, the deep sea: six more nights on the cameras.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox

Inscryption key art: a wooden cabin door lit from above by hanging lanterns in a dark log cabin

Inscryption

A card game for your life in a dark cabin, and secrets written on the cards.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

It gets so lonely here key art: a girl in a school uniform with a red ribbon covers her face with her hands in a dark forest

It gets so lonely here

Run through the forest. She will never let you go.

PC / Mac / Linux

Kiosk art: the dim tiled kitchen of the kiosk, with a steel table, an open notebook, shelves of food and the serving window

Kiosk

Cook for the night customers and find out what happened to the last guy.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / Android

Knock-knock art: a purple night sky with an orange swirl moon, a twisted horn-shaped pipe and a bare tree hung with red berries and a white horn

Knock-knock

Stay awake and sane until dawn in a cabin where something has moved in.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

Kona: the Magasin General store at night in the snow, a pickup and a snowmobile parked by the fuel pumps

Kona

A detective, a blizzard and a village with no one left in it.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Leaftaker cover: the title in white serif letters on the black screen of an old monitor

Leaftaker

When Stephen Hester died, his grave was already occupied.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Little Misfortune key art: a little girl in a red beret and green coat looks back over a golden autumn hillside, with a fox holding a crackling staff and a Missing poster on a tree

Little Misfortune

A sweet little girl, a friendly voice and a very bad day in the woods.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / Android

Masochisia key art: a hand-drawn gaunt head in front of flames and a dark house, with a scan-line filter

Masochisia

Your hallucinations say you will become a killer. Can you change that?

PC / Mac / Linux

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk key art: a close-up of the girl's wide eyes in purple and dark red pixels

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

Help a girl buy milk, as the voice inside her troubled head.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk screenshot: the red-eyed girl in a black sweater looks worried in her dark apartment, with red windows behind her

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk

The girl got her milk. Now help her get through the night.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

missed messages. screenshot: May, a girl with pink hair and freckles, smiles from a doorway beside a speech bubble thanking you for being her friend

missed messages.

A stranger's phone airdrops you a photo. Accept or decline?

PC / Mac / Linux

MOLDRISE: a grimy tiled lobby under a single ceiling light, with rows of mailboxes and a glowing vending machine

MOLDRISE

A fungus in your head has one order: climb thirty floors.

PC / Linux

Neverending Nightmares key art: a man holding a red candle while a pale woman with bleeding red eyes reaches for him from behind

Neverending Nightmares

Wake from a nightmare into another one, and another, in black and white.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone

No one lives under the lighthouse key art: a white lighthouse under dark storm clouds with seagulls flying past

No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut

Keep the light burning, and do not open the basement door.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

OFF key art: a swarm of pale purple ghosts with varied faces pouring over dark purple buildings

OFF

Guide the Batter on a sacred mission to purify a world of specters.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

Oxenfree key art: a glowing triangular rift hanging in a dark cave

Oxenfree

A night on an island, a radio, and a rift you should not have opened.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch / iPhone / Android

Paper Cages screenshot: a pixel-art bedroom with a figure in bed, a close-up of a tired face between willpower and completion bars, and the prompt Mash Z to wake up

Paper Cages

Wake up, get dressed, go to work. A true horror story.

Browser / PC / Mac / Linux

Paper Lily key art: Lacie, a blonde girl in a red scarf and white coat, holding a golden letter tangled in red threads

Paper Lily - Chapter 1

Follow a golden letter into a hidden world where every puzzle has another way out.

PC / Mac / Linux

Paragnosia: a dim living room with a sofa, lamps and bookshelves lit by a red glow

Paragnosia

Watch your haunted apartment from a camera on a rail and exorcise what moves.

PC / Linux

Paratopic: a dim diner in low-poly 3D with a Hot Food sign, checkered floor and a revolver with bullets on the counter

Paratopic

Smuggle tapes, chase a bird, kill a man, and do not trust the road.

PC / Mac / Linux / Xbox / Switch

Penumbra: Black Plague screenshot: a flooded, arched brick tunnel lit green, a doorway glowing at the far end

Penumbra: Black Plague

No weapons, an infected research complex and a voice in your head.

PC / Mac / Linux

Pony Island screenshot: the title screen on an old CRT, with two horned pony heads and a 1992 copyright

Pony Island

A pony game made by the devil, and you are trapped inside it.

PC / Mac / Linux

Pumpkin Eater watercolour art: the son's carved jack-o'-lantern head slumped against a dark green sofa

Pumpkin Eater

A family cares for their pumpkin-headed son, and keeps smiling.

PC / Mac / Linux

Saint Kotar key art: a bloodied man in glasses leans on a companion before hooded figures, a church tower and crows under a full moon

Saint Kotar

Two devout men, a missing sister and a town that worships something else.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

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